Rick Estrin & The Nightcats

The Chicago Sun-Times calls Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, “serious musicians having a hotter than hot good time. It’s tough to stay in your seat when Estrin and his musical cohorts get cooking.” Multi-Blues Music Award-winning band Rick Estrin & The Nightcats unleash their new album, The Hits Keep Coming, and it packs a powerful punch, with phenomenal musicianship and lyrics—both serious and humorous. The Hits Keep Coming (the band’s sixth release) is modern blues at its most potent, intense and fun in all the right places, as harmonica master, songwriter and vocalist Rick Estrin, along with the unstoppable Nightcats, deliver twelve groove-heavy, hard-hitting songs. Estrin’s signature streetwise vocals and hipster-cool look, Christoffer “Kid” Andersen’s eye-popping, off-the-cuff guitar pyrotechnics and mad production skills, Lorenzo Farrell’s mighty organ, piano and bass work and Derrick “D’Mar” Martin’s dynamic, acrobatic drumming make every one of their albums essential, and every performance a must-see event. “People don’t go out to see people who look like themselves,” says Estrin. “They want to see something special. I was schooled in this business to be a showman, and that’s what you get when you come to see us perform.” “The current litter of ‘Cats,” declares DownBeat, “reigns as the best band anywhere.” Forbes says, “Rick Estrin & The Nightcats are America’s greatest musical showmen…Estrin is a world class musician…the most colorful and entertaining showman around.”